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You manage or work at a small to medium sized business and your looking for a way to save some money and green it up a bit more. Since you have read some previous posts and already installed high velocity hand driers and sensor activated faucets – you’re now looking for the next step.

Why not install some point of use tank-less water heaters and get rid of your large inefficient hot water tank? We use a Takagi TK-3 at the family vacation home down in Jersey - it enables you to shower with perfect 122 degree water until your skin is thouroughly "pruned" (if you so desire). You will never run out of hot water again!

Smaller electric units are available for under the sink and in the kitchen, which are ideal for many business applications. Here is a great site where you can learn more

The carbon footprint of a small point of use water heater is dramatically less than that of a large tank system. The initial installation might set you back a bit more than a conventional system, but the monthly savings in water usage and energy consumption (approximately 24-34%) makes your return on investment fast. 
*Update: 1/22/11 As a bonus, the Takagi also supplies the hot water for the radiant base board heat. Get the Grundfos 3 speed pump - see link below and the Isolator shut-off valves so you can drain the system / replace the pump when required easily. 

Looks tricky - which it is, but you can contact me and I can give you some pointers. This system which I installed myself has a domestic recirculating loop, and a baseboard heating loop.

Since I have been a road warrior for the past several years,..my reliance on printed paper has become less and less. No physical printer drivers are even loaded on my work computer! I do have a free easy to use program call dopdf which simply outputs files into pdf.

I challenge you to examine your paper usage in your home and your office. Ask yourself: Do I really need to print that? Could I just save the file on my computer, backup drive, or a thumb drive and not worry about cluttering up my office with more paper? Does my client really want to deal with paper either? Why am I faxing, when I should be emailing a confirmation, quote, or other document? Really the only use for paper is if you are trying to pull a George Costanza around the office and need to carry some paper and walk quickly to appear busy.

So try it,...Unplug your printer for 24 hours, then a week. Soon your weekly trips to buy ink will be long gone, you will need less filing cabinets, have more desk space, and your life will be more organized and electronically searchable.